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words

I’m a fan of languages, but I’m also very aware that they’re not my strength. I might appear as bilingual, but I speak English with a Japanese accent and my Japanese is rusty. So I feel quite privileged being part of two projects that have to do with “words”. The Perfect Word, is fourth Nuit Blanche Project with PBDP, and I’m one of ten dancers who speaks different language as their native language. I had a week of creation/ rehearsal with Peggy last week, and despite that connecting to Japanese in relation to movement was a big challenge, I feel I got to discover something new through this process. I’m excited to work on the dance now that the creation is done, and to get a chance to perform this twelve times in one night! Another project was offered to me in during my visit in Japan, where I got asked to be one of 30 people to write an essay about “hope”. I wrote this essay towards Japanese readers especially for those in my generation. It was interesting process, reviewing my perspective as Japanese and searching ways to describe what I can share… This HOPE BOOK, is now published online and will be sold this week at The Tokyo Art Book Fair 2014.